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AICPA Honors Albert B. Ellentuck With Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award

Albert B. Ellentuck is the recipient of the 2008 Arthur J. Dixon
Memorial Award, the highest award given by the accounting profession
in the area of taxation. The award, given by the Tax Division of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, was presented at
the AICPA’s Fall Tax Division Meeting in Washington, DC on Oct. 30 by
Robert Rosen, a former chair of the AICPA Tax Executive Committee.

Ellentuck is a nationally recognized expert in the area of estates
and trusts, as well as tax planning for individuals, businesses and
not-for-profit organizations. He’s practiced with accounting firms and
law firms during his career. Currently, Ellentuck is of counsel to
King & Nordlinger LLP Attorneys at Law in Arlington, Va. He was
the managing tax partner of the international accounting firm of
Laventhol & Horwath from 1975-1989. Ellentuck began his career as
an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS.

Ellentuck has been a dedicated volunteer leader for the AICPA for 20
years. Most notably, he was the chair of the AICPA Tax Executive
Committee. Ellentuck was chairman of the Liaison with Other
Professional Organizations Subcommittee and the Tax Division
Communications Committee. He has twice served on the Tax
Administration Subcommittee and the Corporations & Shareholders
Subcommittee. Ellentuck has also served on a number of other AICPA Tax
Division committees and task forces.

He is a contributing editor and the long time editor of the
practically oriented Case Study feature of the AICPA’s The Tax
Adviser and served on the publication’s Editorial Advisory Board
for many years.

Ellentuck is the author of numerous tax-oriented books and articles
and is a member of Practitioner’s Publishing Company’s Tax Action
Bulletin Panel.

Ellentuck received a B.S. in accounting from New York University and
a J.D. from Harvard Law School. The annual award is in honor of Arthur
J. Dixon, a CPA who had an outstanding record of service to the tax
profession and to the AICPA Tax Division. Dixon was chairman of the
AICPA's Tax Executive Committee from 1977 to 1980 and posthumously won
the first award named in his honor. The award was established after
his death in 1981 to honor outstanding CPAs in the area of taxes.